Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis